Critical percolation exploration path and SLE₆: a proof of convergence

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Abstract: It was argued by Schramm and Smirnov that the critical site percolation exploration path on the triangular lattice converges in distribution to the trace of chordal SLE(6). We provide here a detailed proof, which relies on Smirnov's theorem that crossing probabilities have a conformally invariant scaling limit (given by Cardy's formula). The version of convergence to SLE(6) that we prove suffices for the Smirnov-Werner derivation of certain critical percolation crossing exponents and for our analysis of the critical percolation full scaling limit as a process of continuum nonsimple loops.


The aim of the article is to present the detailed self-contained proof of the convergence of the critical site percolation exploration path on the triangular lattice to the trace of chordal SLE, for Jordan domains. The convergence is understood in the strong sense: in the topology induced by the uniform metric on continuous curves modulo monotonic reparametrization, and locally uniformly in the ``shape of the domain and the starting and ending points of the curve. The key tool of the proof is the theorem of \textit{S. Smirnov} [C. R. Acad. Sci., Paris, Sér. I, Math. 333, No. 3, 239--244 (2001; Zbl 0985.60090)] that crossing probabilities have a conformally invariant scaling limit given by Cardy's formula



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